The New Hampshire Gazette

If it was not "the object or tendency of Mr. B's "remarks upon" our "account of the trial of the libel suit, to vindicate Gen. Upham," those remarks could certainly have no other "object or tendency," and must be viewed for two or three weeks at least, as a mere senseless and unmeaning tirade of words about nothing.

His saying now that it was not his object "to vindicate Gen. Upham against the charges made in the Patriot," is a mere subterfuge: his denial of having entered on the ground of defence, has heretofore had no such qualification; it has been direct and palpable, that he had not commenced the vindication of Gen. Upham, and would not be provoked into it; when the very ground of his complaint, and the main point which he labored for two or three weeks, was, to make out that we had dealt unfairly by Mr. Upham, in representing him as denying the genuineness of the documents purporting to have been written by him, and, at the same time, laboring to shut out from the jury his own signatures and writing, offered for the purpose of aiding them in making their decision, and that we "could not have presented the plaintiff to the public in a more unfavorable attitude."

Still, this is the attitude in which we have not "ceased" to represent him, from the beginning of the controversy to this day; but, because we have admitted some errors in regard to the ground on which certain papers were ruled out,--facts merely incidental to the main controversy, and which do not alter the light in which Mr. Upham is "presented to the public," Mr. B now says, "there no longer remains any occasion for comment."

Whatever assertions we made at the beginning, we have maintained throughout, and reasserted in our last,--and of all our assertions, aside from the disputation about the rule of law, and the point in Mr. W's evidence, which grew out of the main controversy at rather a late period, and were merely incidental, we have never admitted any of them to be errors, "either in terms, or by ceasing to assert them."